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"Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening, the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cents of course? Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86400 seconds. Every night, it writes off as lost, whatever of these you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposit, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against 'tomorrow'. You must live in the present of today's deposit. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today."

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Harini aku dengan adik aku beserta rakan-rakan pergi ke Padang Besar. Ketika dalam perjalanan pulang seperti biasa kami akan melalui suatu "Road Block Unit Pencegahan Penyeludupan". Pemandu yang melalui jalan tersebut terpaksa memperlahankan kenderaan mereka untuk diperiksa oleh pegawai yang bertugas untuk memastikan tiada pengunjung yang mencurigakan mengunjungi sempadan Perlis-Thailand dan membeli barangan yang tidak dibenarkan. Aku dan rakan-rakan berkelakuan seperti biasa, kalau tahan pun bukan ada benda bukan-bukan yang kami beli. But the weird part is, bila kawan aku bukak tingkap, aku boleh pergi tanya pegawai tu;

"Bang, area sini dekat mana koe teaw sedap?"

Dan pegawai tersebut dengan berbudi bahasanya memberi tunjuk arah ke sebuah kedai char koe teaw di kawasan Kangar. One of the famous char koe teaw stall in Perlis.

Dan kereta-kereta di belakang beratur panjang menunggu..